Jataka and Avadana texts in West and East Tocharian: An interdisciplinary analysis of the Central Asian transmission

该项目打算提供最重要的Jataka和Avadana碎片的综合版本，其中包括吐火罗语文本，仪器批评，新的德语翻译，语言学比较，佛学和语言学评论。将吐火罗语的Jataka和Avadana碎片与中亚的平行文本进行比较，将为吐火罗语碎片的语言学和语言学分析提供关键。系统地分析吐火罗语《Jataka》和《Avadana》文本的形式特征，并将其与印度的同类文献进行比较，将对研究北部丝绸之路沿线佛教叙事文学的发展提供重要启示。由于对这两种吐火罗语的语法和词汇的了解还远远没有完成，对吐火罗语的研究需要各学科的密切合作，包括印欧语言学、印度学、中亚研究和佛教研究，他们的技能必须以典范的方式参与到这个项目中。

The project intends to provide a comprehensive edition of the most important Jataka und Avadana fragments in Tocharian with Tocharian text, apparatus criticus, a new German translation, a philological-comparative, buddhological and linguistic commentary. The comparison of the Tocharian Jataka and Avadana fragments with Central Asian parallel texts will provide a key to their philological and linguistic analysis of the Tocharian fragments. The systematic analysis of the formal traits of the Tocharian Jataka and Avadana texts in comparison with Indian parallels will shed an important light on the development of the Buddhist narrative literature along the northern Silk Road.Since the knowledge of the grammar and lexicon of both Tocharian languages is still far from being complete, the investigation of the Tocharian Jatakas and Avadanas requires an intimate collaboration of various disciplines, of Indo-European linguistics, Indology, Central Asian studies, and Buddhist studies, whose skills have to be involved in the project in an exemplary fashion.